Amanda Holden fumes at Priti Patel as she witnesses plight of Ukrainian refugees on border

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Amanda Holden, 51, has witnessed the devastation caused by the war in Ukraine after she travelled to a refugee camp in Medyka, Poland.The Britain’s Got Talent judge has been reporting from the ground on her Global podcast Ukraine’s Hidden Voices, which launched earlier this month.She took to Instagram yesterday to share a picture of an exhausted Ukrainian woman, in view of her 1.8 million followers.The poignant photo showed a young Ukrainian woman sleeping while sitting on a chair and using a bag as a pillow.Next to her, another woman looked at her phone with her bag clutched between her legs.Amanda, who was left speechless by the scenes she had witnessed, hit out at the Home Secretary over some of her latest remarks on the refugee crisis.She captioned the shot: “Priti Patel has said Vladimir Putin might try to use Ukrainian women and children to infiltrate the UK.

I have no words.”Priti Patel had recently suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use female spies to enter the UK under the guise of Ukrainian refugees.Speaking at the Conservative spring conference in Blackpool last week, Patel stressed the UK’s need to “remain watchful”.She said: “I’ve been asked why couldn’t we suspend security checks on people escaping Putin’s war?“Times of conflict, my friends, emphasise our need to remain watchful.”Patel also reminded attendees of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings, which resulted in the death of a woman living in the nearby town of Amesbury.She said: “Only four years ago, the Russian military intelligence services used a chemical weapon on British soil.“It happened in Salisbury, a beautiful city, whose inhabitants would have felt completely safe.“Dawn Sturgess could never have imagined that she would lose.